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Readers Real and Ideal [by Katha Pollitt]
I love the Gertrude Stein quip David Comiskey posted in response to my last blog: “I write for myself and strangers.” That just about covers it, doesn’t it? Another reader sent in a …
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Quote of the Week: Christopher Marlowe
Here is the epigraph T. S. Eliot chose for his poem "Portrait of a Lady": << Thou hast committed —Fornication: but that was in another country,And besides, the wench is dead. >> from The…
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“The Eagle is in the Future” (from “Three Dates”) [by Geoffrey Young]
<<<RENE CHAR : Isle-Sur-Sorgue It was early July, 1970, and we were at Le Chateau d’Lignane, guests of the Boutié family in Aix-en-Provence. Laura had spent a month with them when she was sixteen.…
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Trying To Hold On [by Lera Auerbach]
Ink on Paper by Lera Auerbach Alone When you try to hold on – what exactly are you holding onto? In the labyrinth, Ariadne left a thread for Theseus to help him find his…
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Emily Dickinson 4 [by Mitch Sisskind]
Her final words? For years She gave thought to them But here was the difficulty: Her reputed last murmurings Would be far from final and Quite the opposite in fact: The words in the…
